Community Tasting Note
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LiteItOnFire Likes this wine: 96 points
August 30, 2022 - No notes and only fleeting impressions as it was an epic night with both old friends and new before the Chateau Angelus dinner at Anhelo in downtown Phoenix tonight (8/31). All wines were split between 6.25 of us and unless noted, minimal decant (max 30 minutes).
Are you kidding me, a 2001 Harlan Estate brought by IDRBDW- yes please and thank you (very generous). The wine is compelling, extremely well built, simply gorgeous. It’s more of a grown up wine demanding you take notice vs the rest of the wineverse (is that like a Marvel thing I am not sure). I think this would have been 2 pts higher a few years ago for my palate but others may put this near perfection. Tremendous wine. Thank you for the opportunity .1 person found this helpful 3,261 views
3 Comments
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Mark1npt commented:
9/1/22, 6:28 PM - Another great one.....I would guess this is probably drinking in its perfect window right now. 96 is pretty righteous.
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Papillon1112 commented:
10/1/22, 7:56 PM - Opened a 1999 Harlan about 6 weeks. It did not disappoint! Was a bit apprehensive since I thought the wine may have been compromised. If it was and I really don’t think so maybe it would have scored 2 pts higher.
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LiteItOnFire commented:
10/1/22, 11:50 PM - Pap- nice! Sounds like you had a beautiful bottle with 23 years of development! Cheers